"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

I don't mean to brag but...

...sometimes I think my son, who will be four at the end of next month, is a friggin' genius.

Tonight, I was putting him down for bed. I was about to turn out the light, when he asked me to put a blanket over his lamp instead (he has been getting more and more scared of the dark lately).

I told him that I couldn't do that because the light bulb is very hot and the blanket could catch on fire. The ensuing conversation went like this:

Budding Genius: Daddy, what is that cloth called that firemens' suits are made out of? You know, the kind that protects them from the fire?

Daddy: You mean Nomex?

Budding Genius: Yeah, Nomex. Why don't you get a blanket made out of Nomex, and then you could put that over my lamp, and then the blanket won't catch on fire.

Daddy: *Mouth drops open in amazement*

Meanwhile, my two-year-old daughter is obsessing on this CD we got of a woman singing children's songs, and my daughter has big chunks of the song lyrics memorized. It all makes for some interesting times in the Chanman household!

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I am native of the mountains of northern California; 12-year veteran of the U.S. Army and California National Guard; Secondary School History teacher; Husband; Father of Two; and three-time honoree as Time Magazine's Person of the Year (2003, 2006, 2011).